Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Quotes
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
